View source for How to avoid DOS line endings in Windows tools

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If you are going to work on the viewer code you need to conform to the [[Coding Standard]].
Standards your editor must support:
* Lines must end with a <code>LF</code> (linefeed) character. In addition to the editor specific notes below, you should consider using the Mercurial extension [http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/EolExtension EolExtension] to make line-endings less of a problem.
* A tab must be the same width as 4 spaces.

==Strip'em==
*Third party tool for Visual Studio 2008/2010 to automatically convert files to specified line ending type when a file is saved.
*Download and instructions: http://grebulon.com/software/stripem.php
*You will need to set to save to '''Unix (LF)''' line ending and add <code>|xml</code> to the regular expression of files this tool watches.  
**This is done in its options floater accessed from inside Visual Studio, '''Tools''' -> '''Stripem'''. 
*You need to configure Visual Studio to automatically reload files that change externally.
**Select '''Tools''' -> '''Options...''' -> '''Environment''' -> '''Documents''' from the VS menu. 
**Check '''Detect when file is changed outside the environment''' and '''Auto-load changes, if saved'''.

==Notepad++==
Configuring Notepad++ ([http://notepadplusplus.org/ download Notepad++])

* Line ending
** You should not need to specify the line ending for an existing file but for a new file you will want to set '''Edit''' > '''EOL Conversion''' > '''UNIX Format'''
* Tab spacing
** Go to '''Settings''' > '''Preferences''' > '''Language Menu/Tab Settings'''.
** Click on '''Default'''
** Change '''Tab Size''' to <code>4</code>
** Uncheck the box '''Replace by space'''
** Note: if you are going to be using the program as a general editor, you can customize which file types this tab to space conversion applies to.


==Programmer's Notepad==
Configuring Programmer's Notepad ([http://pnotepad.org/ download Programmer's Notepad])

* Per-file Line-ending Setting
** You should not need to specify the line ending for an existing file but for a new file you will want to set '''File''' > '''Properties...''' > '''Line Endings''' to '''Unix (LF)'''
* To set "Unix" line endings as default for new files
** Go to '''Tools''' > '''Options''' > '''General''' > '''Defaults'''
** Set '''Line Endings''' to '''Unix (LF)'''
* Tab spacing
** Go to '''Tools''' > '''Options''' > '''General''' > '''Defaults'''
** Make sure the '''Use the tab character for indentation''' setting is checked.
** Set '''Tab Width''' to <code>4</code>
* Visible whitespace
** It is convenient to be able to tell at a glance if there are incorrect characters used for indentation or line endings
** Go to '''Tools''' > '''Options''' > '''General''' > '''Defaults'''
** Check the box '''Visible Line Endings'''
** Check the box '''Visible Whitespace Characters'''
* Correcting line endings on existing files
** Go to '''Tools''' > '''Line Endings''' > '''Unix (LF)''' to convert the file